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...hostage mess had turned brackish, and worse was to come: at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 25, Carter told the nation that a U.S. military raid to rescue the hostages had been aborted, leaving the burned bodies of eight servicemen behind in the Iranian desert. In the next days, Americans gloomily sifted the rubble of their hopes and the nation's self-respect. Why had three of eight Sea Stallion helicopters failed? What was wrong with our equipment, or our nerve? Had there been a reasonable chance of success or was Carter's raid an ill-advised...
...Budget Committee was indignant because Jimmy Carter had just appeared to change his mind about the budget that Hollings had shepherded through a House-Senate conference committee. In the same week that Carter told the crew of the homecoming nuclear aircraft carrier Nimitz that he favored higher pay for servicemen (see cover story), the President also told a group of civic leaders that Congress's proposed budget provided too much money for the military. "He doesn't want a balanced budget," roared Hollings. "He wants a campaign budget...
...share of servicemen with some college experience who have enlisted in the Army has taken a shocking drop: from 13.9% in 1964 to 3.2% last year. There is also a drastic decrease in what are called category I recruits, those scoring highest on aptitude tests given to enlistees. Meanwhile, relatively large numbers of category IVs, the lowest level the military will accept, appear to be signing up. Fully 34% of the Army's enlistees leave before their first three-year term is up; the Army shucks off those who seem totally unsuitable...
...thus easier to manage. The British services also draw on a more homogeneous society than the American, Finally, British military morale has improved since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government pushed through a 32% pay raise for the armed forces last spring. British servicemen are now generally paid the same as civilians in comparable jobs; their American counterparts still lag far behind...
...fight Communist insurgents in Malaya. In Oman, the unit helped the Sultan repulse Saudi-backed rebels and Marxist insurgents. Gradually, the S.A.S. has focused on combatting terrorism. In Northern Ireland, where S.A.S. men have been posted since 1976, the unit is credited with halving the rate at which British servicemen were murdered by I.R.A. gunmen. One reason for the S.A.S.'s success has been its fearsome psychological impact on terrorists in South Armagh. So great is the S.A.S. reputation that European governments have often called upon its antiterrorist squads for help. During the 1977 hijacking of a Lufthansa...